From groovecake@yahoo.com Sun Oct 21 08:52:24 2007
Subject:Re: My Xk-3 has been reborn!!

I got mine the first weekend they were released so its
possible that I got an early model that wasn't quite
perfected yet. Who knows. All I know is that all the
complaints I had about the shallow trigger point and
the shotgun retriggering when I flicked a key are
gone.

--- jjmcs49 wrote:

> I believe that Hammond has a number of organists
> that they work with
> for all their products. It seems that however it
> happened, Mitch's XK-
> 3 had a shallower trigger point than what was
> intended. The trigger
> point on mine is 1/8" on most keys and maybe up to
> 1/32" less on
> others. It is the same for the lower manual on my
> Traditional System.
> That seems to be what most others have measured as
> well. I like the
> way mine feels and plays.
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, goffmac747@...
> wrote:
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> > I figured as much it was Fatar. But did HZ
> consult a Hammond
> player when they built the XK series? To see if the
> action and
> triggering was good enough for an organ player.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jjmcs49
> > To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:25 pm
> > Subject: [CWSG] Re: My Xk-3 has been reborn!!
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> > The keyboard is provided by Fatar and the XK-3 is
> built in Japan.
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> > --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, goffmac747@
> wrote:
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> > > Makes you wonder who HZ confered with when they
> designed the
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> > keybeds for these clones... Turned me off when I
> demoed one in
> Japan.
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> > Btw, are these made in Japan?
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> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > From: Dave Strauss
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> > > To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
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> > > Sent: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:37 am
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> > > Subject: [CWSG] Re: My Xk-3 has been reborn!!
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> > > Hi, folks.
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> > > Just a word of caution that you're probably
> voiding the warranty
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> > > shimming the keybed...
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> > > Dave
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> > > --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "xkdave"
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> > > > Mitch,
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